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The state budget spending cap is expected to slam down on Connecticut’s public colleges and universities next year, reducing course offerings and teaching posts while triggering further tuition and fees hikes. As the emergency fund surpluses that kept higher education afloat during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic disappear, the cap is blocking advocates who […]

This opinion addresses a proposed arrangement (“Proposed Arrangement”) by the manufacturer of cochlear implants (“Requestor”), where the Requestor would provide certain patients who...

The Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) recently issued Advisory Opinion 22-08 (the “Advisory Opinion”), concluding that the provision of limited use smartphones by a federally...

The grants are part of a series of recent commitments from the provost’s office to promote inclusion, diversity, equity, and access.

Telehealth—the provision and coordination of healthcare remotely by means of telecommunications technology—is now an essential tool in the delivery of health care services. The COVID-19...

On April 27, 2022, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services issued Advisory Opinion No. 22-08 (AO 22-08), which addresses an existing...

On April 28, 2022, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) published Advisory Opinion 22-08 in which the OIG declined to impose sanctions against a federally qualified health center...

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General OIG issued Advisory Opinion No. 22-08 about federally qualified health center arrangement loaning limited-use smartphones for patients to access telehealth platform, combat isolation.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 23, 2020, the OIG published Advisory Opinion 20-06, concluding that it would not impose penalties or sanctions under either the beneficiary inducement prohibitions of the civil monetary penalty statute (CMP) or the Anti-Kickback Statute(AKS) related to a management company providing Medicaid enrollment application assistance services to patients of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and home health agencies (HHAs) affiliate...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In its final Advisory Opinion of 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) approved a pharmaceutical company’s request to provide financial assistance to patients who were prescribed a cancer drug that the company manufactured. In Advisory Opinion 20-09, the OIG determined it would not impose sanctions under the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) or beneficiary inducement provision of the Civi...